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Originally Posted by jkumpire
Wasn't it just a couple of years ago they put in the "Brinkman Rule", once you kill a ball, by calling it foul it is dead? I understand the pressure MLB guys are under, no matter what you are drawn and quartered on SportsCenter for making a mistake. But so what?
You kill the ball, it's foul. It has to be a dead play. Ugly, ugly call in Cleveland, and if any of us made it on any level, we would be ejecting half of a field we were working on.
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You are correct. MLB's umpires are in the spotlight. under a microscope, but they are also in a bubble.
They can get away with just about anything. The players can't afford to all be ejected, they have all kinds of security, sure they might throw out one or two but that's about it.
In our world, we would be running for our lives on a call like this and have to forfeit the game due to all the ejections and so forth.
thanks
David